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As I turned my head, I was surprised to see that Arion's laser had struck the crystalline sphere above the altar, actually destroying the mystical seal inside
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Being distracted like that, it was then that I surprised a mystical pomegranate tree, her bold round fruit already ripening amongst long, glossy leaves and she actually tried to trip me amongst her roots, lying like stiffened serpents around her base
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“There is no glorified mystical euphoria that surrounds the Indians
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There is no missing link, nor mystical rite to perform
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My religious roots lie in the high Anglican tradition - smells and bells, Hymns Ancient and Modern and the whole awesome mystical baggage that goes with it
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And she likewise had always brushed off such tales as parents’ ways of keeping their children from wandering and falling in with loathsome wildlife, rather than anything mystical
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Spiritual – Of the soul; sacred, divine, mystical, holy, saintly,
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There is no need to be mystical about the truth
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"These are mystical techniques handed down from generation to generation
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they have at times a mystical sense of unity with all other
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mystical experiences with others because they have come
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It is a mystical place between the earth and the sky
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I saw the mystical place
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Nothing mystical, no bad vibrations
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He stood underneath them for many minutes trying to see something in them that would reveal a mystical secret explaining how William Monterey had disappeared
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“I doubt she can resist the offer of climbing to such heights in our exotic mystical knowledge
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On the outskirts of the Mystical Forest, near the dirt path is a thick, dense, group of Rowan trees
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Rowan trees are ancient trees, but they're a type of Mystical Ash
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Each night he leads the evil forces into battle with the mystical animals
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It was mid-day in the mystical forest, and the Sun was very bright
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She wouldn't stop until the mystical creatures were gone forever
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He described the mystical animals and the relationship he had with them
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She heard about the fever and the transformation this would have on her ability to see and communicate with these mystical animals
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Her Father reassured her and would often talk of his discussions with the mystical animals
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She knew she'd be able to see a mystical animal, where as Joseph would not
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Ruby's Father had described mystical animals that lived in the forest
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"You're in the center of Tamworthia, the oldest part of the mystical forest
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My Father told me of the forest and the mystical creatures
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The mystical animals had hope, inspired by a new leader
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She introduced the concept of mystical creatures, their relationship with her Father and the fact that he couldn't see them
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Ruby fought with the mystical animals
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The creatures called her Princess, but Giselle was one of the most revered, feared, and wisest of the mystical creatures
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A Mystical creature whose very existence was only told in legends and folklore; an oversized White Owl, with razor sharp talons and cutting wisdom, gleaned from thousands of years
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You’re entering this is the mystical forest, the old forest
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This is the Mystical Owl that I talked about
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Mystical creatures still exist today
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"The mystical creatures took a chance on a small girl
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In the recent past, I have championed the idea that many mythological accounts take their basis from oral history where the retelling over the generations diluted the real experience at its core with magical and mystical add-on descriptions, and stories
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- It is not forbidden to have fun here although you are a mystical stranger
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Man has been a good student, and today understands as naturally occurring, many things that even many generations ago seemed mystical and magical
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direction of the sound he went into river, when a mystical light guided
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Traditionally Thais never leave rice on the plate as it is considered wasteful and rice has an almost mystical significance in addition to its humdrum 'daily bread' function
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Then there were divine beings that covered many levels of relative “Gnosis” (mystical, as opposed to material knowledge)
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I feel a little naked but profoundly connected with the mystical aspects of this site, and after just a few seconds, I become immersed in the most insightful meditation, praying
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Regardless of what information you may pour into your brain, and how well you may intellectually understand Buddhism, Zen or the Christian mystical traditions, the intellect is no match for the soul
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He had an aura that would strengthen with age, with thought, with action, like the cowherd Krishna discovering his mystical talents
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“It is not as mystical as you might think
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The chanting, wands, and other trappings are used to help focus and store the energy, which is where it starts looking mystical
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Japanese folk law says that only children can see the mystical characters called
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The one they have after school, at school, where you learn about mystical stuff which doesn't exist, because there's no such thing as Obake
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They are very mystical
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“Do you think it is a good thing to be mystical?”
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I explained that he would be staying with and trained by Ayun’ini, a very mystical shaman
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There is nothing mystical, superstitious or impractical in the
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Maggie stood in the center of the empty farmyard and let the light of the thread dance on the earth and the sides of the buildings, recalling the mystical moment when the whole yard was as full of the light as if one of the stars had come down to earth
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anywhere, the place had nearly reached the mystical non-existent state, supposing
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The term metaphysics (from the Greek meta, beyond or along with, and physika, physical material) is often taken to refer to the esoteric, the mystical, the transcendental, or the religious aspects of human discourse
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She looked like a mystical goddess; I noticed then that I haven’t moved an inch, as if she’d disappear if I did
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Without pretending to be an expert in music, Roger believes, however, that it does not reach the level of spirituality of the Gregorian Chant with its delicate mystical religious solemnity
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They had to connect it to some historical text and make it sound very mystical, holy and reverent
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On the other side, mystical thinking presumes that the unknown can be positive, and that in some cases, Pandora’s Box
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This is a mystical experience
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Not only is it not new, it is hackneyed in comparison to the far better prose of the classic mystical religious writers
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difference between him and his ilk as compared to similar mystical writers noted by
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Although highly mystical, it is a legitimate course of Jewish study
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“Why would the Spirit request such a thing of you? Eating the leaves of this mystical tree will fulfil what the Spirit requires of you
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“You think they have mystical powers? That they can help us against the mind-executioner?”
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Music hums in the space between the men and the bird, the mystical song of the cane
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All the colours of gold and rose, sea blue, herb green and morning grey rise from the floor, the shattered walls, the dust itself that is contained in the mystical Library of the city
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If ground is what this mystical place possesses
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that we would go to the mystical Great Hall, where we would
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from, but I do know that the more mystical and otherworldly we
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Possibly the mystical fervor, purveyed by these religionists, is a fanatical form of an idea that began with the early Christians
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hypnotic therapy--this mystical, magical euphoria that bathed every soul when he sang
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No, he did not have a mystical ability to foretell the future
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The Nordheim force would be directed by Bellack, Thulsa’s mystical advisor
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The coniunctio oppositorum and the mystical wedding between the king and queen
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‘Ah, it would appear that the lady does have a mystical talent after all, eyes in the back of your head and a tongue like a rattlesnake
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After declaring that these experiences are ‘not outside of the range of normal brain function,’ Newberg concludes that, ‘In other words, mystical experience is biologically, observably, and scientifically real
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’ Those who have experienced advanced states of mystical unity, however, claim that these states do feel like a higher reality
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Hooper and Teresi note that it is interesting that the path to God (in mystical traditions) seems to be a negative path, a path of ‘unknowing
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Are these (mystical) unitary experiences merely the result of neurological function or are they genuine experiences which the brain is able to perceive? Could it be that the brain has evolved the ability to transcend material existence and experience a higher plane of being that actually exists?
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’ He observes that the right brain’s ‘nonlinear mode’ is cultivated deliberately in Eastern mystical traditions for the purpose of arriving at a ‘more accurate picture of reality not based on time, linear consciousness, or the physical changes of the illusory world
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Abraham Maslow comments on his patients who had mystical experiences: ‘This is not a simple a happening as one might imagine from the bare words
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Mystical experience is beyond the realm of opposites
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1 While brain machines and drugs may be used in sophisticated ways more often in the future to shift reality modes, Eastern mystical traditions have resorted to various techniques, including viewing diagrams (or yantras), confronting puzzles over phrases that have no rational meaning (or koans), and mental and physical exercises which aim to produce a state of ‘no conceptualising while remaining fully awake
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Eastern mystical traditions have encouraged listening to low (frequency) tones in chants and bells in temples — thus eliciting and encouraging responses from the right brain, he says
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With continual concentration on every feature of the stimulus, an almost hypnotic (sometimes mystical) state is achieved, in which a blanking out of the left brain’s reality occurs
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William James believes that mystical states, though similar to emotional states, are also states of knowledge
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Snyder’s findings support Aldous Huxley’s eliminative theory of the brain and also the extended theory presented in this book which concludes that it is due to the impairment or shutting-off of specific parts of the brain that results in mystical and psychic states; and access to information which would not normally be associated with our everyday state of consciousness
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Harman and Rheingold say that ‘one of the primary characteristics of the experience of mystical states is that it does not lend itself well to precise verbal expressions
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One limitation of experiential mystical knowledge is its increased subjectivity, since, most of this knowledge is axiomatic
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As Science moves into an appositional phase — where conflicting and complementary internally self-consistent ‘linear theories’ are accepted (as in the case of the particle-wave duality in quantum physics), we will see a closer matching between scientific and mystical models of reality
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Chapter 6: The Brain and Mystical Experiences